Hey guys, Looking for some tips of any kind. Atm my gf and I are working on getting into a Raiding guild that is successful. Im healing, and shes dpsing. As far as we know, she has to step up her dps on almost every boss. Before you start, she did not have her 4 set, Bow, or Trinket when she was raiding on Weds, but on Sunday did not have the Bow or the trinket, but did have the 4 set.

Hey guys, Looking for some tips of any kind. Atm my gf and I are working on getting into a Raiding guild that is successful. Im healing, and shes dpsing. As far as we know, she has to step up her dps on almost every boss. Before you start, she did not have her 4 set, Bow, or Trinket when she was raiding on Weds, but on Sunday did not have the Bow or the trinket, but did have the 4 set.

First thing's first gear and spec:

Can afford to shave off a little more hit, this is probably because of new gear and she hasn't had time to properly reforge there but it's some extra stats to be gained.

AoE is paramount in madness and also in black phases of yor'sahj. With the new set bonus you really don't need any points in termination anymore so move that to fill out 2/2 bombardment.

Now onto logs:

A common trend throughout her DPS is that autoshot is her highest damage done: this should not be the case for MM spec and it shows that she is not fully utilising every global CD. This means that she is not performing a good shot rotation and this is also seen by her low uptime on improved steady shot.

Improved steady shot is probably THE most important part of MM hunter DPS and you should really be maintaining a 95%+ uptime on every boss unless it's something like Hagara where you have a lot of time not actually DPSing anything.

Even on Ultraxion she only managed 88% uptime. If she cannot manage 95%+ ISS uptime on a standstill fight there is an inherent problem with her shot priority.

Since she has 4set she should be using arcane shot as much as possible to proc the haste bonus and then using aimed shot to dump focus, also I don't think she is using chimera shot on every cd, so the chimera shot glyph is granting her 0 DPS and she might think about changing it to the rapid fire glyph.

To add onto what Illana said. Even if her rotation was bad she'd be doing a ton more dps by just using a gcd at all times which is something she isn't using. While I don't want to jump on the Kripparrian bandwagon that was ever so present through wrath, he did make one great video that would really help a player like the one listed. The video doesn't do much but show how to maximize damage. It's not even necessarily how to maximize hunter damage, just how abilities work in WoW and what you can do to ensure you get the most out of them. The specific spells in general that he uses are outdated, the info on maximizing dps isn't.

Again I apologize for linking it but it's really really good information for someone that based on the logs really isn't used to mashing buttons.

Hi guys, I've been struggling to reach the numbers that I think my gear allows me to do. So far I cant get over 33.5k dps on for example ultraxion, I've gotten only 2 Fading lights and as mentioned I only managed to hit 33.5k. Even though this is an alt of me I feel like I can do so much more.
I hope anyone of you can recognize some mistakes or anything I'm making.

Last time I tried Ultraxxion normal 10m I did 31.5k dps with ilevel 391 this was 2 weeks ago. This reset I did LFR and did 34k dps while not ignoring any tactics
I currently use ES and BA on CD, click Heroic Will 0.5 seconds before cast ends, im never focus capped.
Is my DPS good or am I lacking in dps?

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Nevermind, did Ultraxxion again yesterday, this time I did 37.5k average, that is fine dps AFAIK.

Hi guys, been reading this forum for the last few months and you guys have helped me improve a lot as a hunter. My raiding team hasn't managed to down Madness yet, but I wanted to know if anyone wouldn't mind taking a look at my parses to see if there's anything that I could improve on. From looking at other hunter parses on WoL, I can already tell that my uptime on Serpent Sting is absolutely crappy, but I don't really know how to fix that. I switch targets and I apply Serpent Sting as soon as I can (well, maybe sometimes it takes a few seconds)... I have the same problems on Blackhorn too, btw: multiple targets and really subpar uptime on my DoTs. Would really appreciate any input/suggestion from you guys about target selection (I click-target rather than tab-target), etc.

I know you guys will probably pooh-pooh my Kiroptyric Sigil, btw, but the only other option I had was the 378 Hungerer...

Hi guys, been reading this forum for the last few months and you guys have helped me improve a lot as a hunter. My raiding team hasn't managed to down Madness yet, but I wanted to know if anyone wouldn't mind taking a look at my parses to see if there's anything that I could improve on. From looking at other hunter parses on WoL, I can already tell that my uptime on Serpent Sting is absolutely crappy, but I don't really know how to fix that. I switch targets and I apply Serpent Sting as soon as I can (well, maybe sometimes it takes a few seconds)... I have the same problems on Blackhorn too, btw: multiple targets and really subpar uptime on my DoTs. Would really appreciate any input/suggestion from you guys about target selection (I click-target rather than tab-target), etc.

I know you guys will probably pooh-pooh my Kiroptyric Sigil, btw, but the only other option I had was the 378 Hungerer...

Thanks so much,

Eíthne

Spec and gearing looks fine.

If you're hurting on a trinket go and kill normal rag, think you will get more benefit out of matrix than the sigil.

Log:

Looks like you forgot to mark ultrax before the fight started

Should always lead with SrS, getting that up is no.1 in your priority above everything else.

You used wyvern sting at one point XD? Wasted global

Shouldn't need to misdirect again during the fight, that's another wasted extended globa (MD triggers 1.5 second GCD instead of 1 second)

Between that first ES and when you started to cast CoS is over 18 seconds, iirc maximum duration of SrS is 18 seconds so it must have fallen off here in a VERY crucial part of survival hunter DPS which is our killshot phase.

Last part is a trick you can use: summon a different ferocity pet before the fight starts, unsummon and while the dismiss cast bar is running cast call of the wild and then summon your actual pet.

This allows you to get like 34seconds of CotW uptime which is a significant DPS boost.

Also you can deterrence 2 Hour of twilights which means less time spent in normal realm and more DPS. Just remember to macro /cancealaura deterrence into explosive shot or something.

---------- Post added 2012-01-19 at 04:54 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Kazrs

LF Advice/Tips for hunters to do max dps. Just hints for getting a few more hundred(or even thousand) DPS.

Rassa Anetheron DPS help!

Spec Marksmanship
Item Level 381
Expectations: trying to get my DPS to a more respectable level (30k)
Armory Link: us .battle.net/wow/en/character/anetheron/Rassa/advanced
Worldoflogs Link: worldoflogs.com/reports/mmeocl73e39dxuqu
WoL log is of an LFR raid I went with guildies.

Hello All,
I'm just recently getting back into playing my hunter and would like to try and optimize my dps for raiding with my guild starting 25man DS.

If some of you could help me out here. Am the only raiding hunter in our 10-man group and would like to do my best, on most fights my DPS is not comparable with others, although I'm one of the highest iLvl raiders in our guild. I know that am doing something wrong... Would be really great if someone would poke my nose into it what am doing wrong and how to improve.

Don't have the gold for epic gems, but working on it as I have time. Also atm I can change the gloves to Sporebat 397 version ones and the spire of globulus for LFR kiril. Have the deathwing normal ragna bow, which I changed for the pvp one, cause well - that was a signifacant upgrade.

Spec Marksmanship
Item Level 381
Expectations: trying to get my DPS to a more respectable level (30k)
Armory Link: us .battle.net/wow/en/character/anetheron/Rassa/advanced
Worldoflogs Link: worldoflogs.com/reports/mmeocl73e39dxuqu
WoL log is of an LFR raid I went with guildies.

Hello All,
I'm just recently getting back into playing my hunter and would like to try and optimize my dps for raiding with my guild starting 25man DS.

Any Incite will be greatly appreciated!

Insight* just so you know for next time

GEAR first:

No belt buckle that needs fixing.
Non-optimal enchant on hands, but that's 15 mastery and relatively minor
No enchant on back
Non-optimal enchant on chest, but this is only 5 agility
Try not to gem yellow gems for anything under a 20 agility bonus. For example you will get more DPS with a 40 agility gem in helmet and gloves

You have a little too much haste. I would try and cut it down to 1300 haste and get a bit nearer to the hit cap so you can squeeze more crit and mastery out.
Your talents are a bit off, since 2part t13 we do not need ANY points in termination now as we overflow with focus as MM even without any points.
Put 1 point in rapid killing and then the other to fill out MfD

Don't use chimera glyph: it's only a DPS increase if you hit chimera at every cd and not many builds allow you to do that. Replace with rapid fire glyph.
I know the 2 empty glyph slots won't give u any DPS but it's still better to fill them out.

I think sorting your gear out is first priority, it seems you are pretty new to hunter and you should get some more practice before asking for help here as you are making lots of simple mistakes that can be rectified just by reading asrialol's guide.

If some of you could help me out here. Am the only raiding hunter in our 10-man group and would like to do my best, on most fights my DPS is not comparable with others, although I'm one of the highest iLvl raiders in our guild. I know that am doing something wrong... Would be really great if someone would poke my nose into it what am doing wrong and how to improve.

Don't have the gold for epic gems, but working on it as I have time. Also atm I can change the gloves to Sporebat 397 version ones and the spire of globulus for LFR kiril. Have the deathwing normal ragna bow, which I changed for the pvp one, cause well - that was a signifacant upgrade.

I know you're gear is usually optimised so won't go into that

Although you have a pretty big mistake in your talents: sic'em is a lot better than CA now on most fights. Could easily get 500 free DPS just from changing those talents around.

As for the logs:

Only 40 seconds of potion, what happened to the other 10? Was it a mistake in pull timer?
You only managed 2 4set procs in the entire fight, should be able to get 3 easily in a 5minute fight but could be bad RNG.
Something is wrong with the log oO says you had troll racial up for 110 seconds.

You used your second pot at a pretty bad time. Should have done it when you first entered killshot phase to max your damage there. Also not sure what happened but you missed out on a killshot since you only managed 5 and Surv does killshots in pairs.

Also same problem other people have: use deterrence to block 2 hours and you gain a little bit of dps not having to go into normal realm.